If you fancy doing some drifting while racing – possibly along ridges – then one assumes that the closed beta for Namco Bandai’s Ridge Racer Driftopia could well be up your alley. Or race track. Whatever.

Ridge Racer Driftopia is a free-to-play title developed by Bugbear Entertainment, with the intent of keeping everything fairly simple but very pretty. Find shortcuts, challenge your friends, level up cards, climb global rankings, etc.

The full version is supposedly due out 2013, but “release” has always been a fairly weird state for free-to-play titles considering they’re basically “out” once they hit open beta, so we’ll see how that goes.